Apparatus for detaching harness from horses



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

SAMUEL HUNT, OF` BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

APPARATUS FOR DETACHING HARNESS FROM HORSES.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 11,262, dated July 11, 1854.

` To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HUNT, of Baltimore city, in the State of Maryland,

have invented certain new improvements declare that the following is a full and exact description of' my said improvements, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists, first, in fastening together the two sections of the saddle-tree by means of a spiral spring attached to a metal shaft running through a tongue and groove near the front of the saddle tree, and by another tongue `and groove at the back of the tree, the whole concealed in theinterior' of the saddle tree so as not to be visible when the two sections are joined together; second,in arranging two turrets on the top` ofthe front of the saddle tree to accommodate the bridle rein,

driving reins and detaching cord, and in x i such manner that said turrets apparently make one when the two sections of the saddle tree are joined, but fallapart from each other `and the t-ree las soon as itst-wo sections are disunited.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceedto describe its construction and operation.

The accompanying Drawing A represents the two sections ofthe saddle tree and tur-` rets united. Drawings B, C, -D and E represent the two sections of the saddle tree and turrets separated. DrawingF represents the shape of each of the turrets.v

Figure 1 in Drawing B represents the spiral spring and met-al shaft, by means of which the two sections of the saddlet-ree are held together or disunited at pleasure, said metal shaft having a handleprojecting behind the saddle tree `on one end and being beveled at the other end.

Fig. 2 in Drawing B represents the handle of the metal shaft at the back of the saddle tree; and Fig. 3 the cord attached thereto, by which cord when pulled` by the driver the harness can be detached. Fig. 4 in Drawing A represents another view of the handle of the metal shaft.

Fig. 35 in Drawing C represents the tongue arranged near the front of one section of the saddle tree; and Fig. 6 in Drawing B, represents the corresponding groove in the other section into `which this tongue is designed to fit, and through this tongue the beveled 'end of the metal shaft passes when the sections are joined. Fig. 8 in Drawing B represents another tongue of a different shape in the other section of the saddle tree and projecting upward at its upper end to a point.

Fig. 7 in Drawing C represents a groove into which the tongue represented by Fig. 8 closely fits when the two sections of the saddle tree are united. The metal shaft does not pass through this tongue.

Figs. 9 and 10 in Drawings B and C represent grooves in the top of the front of each section of the saddle tree into which grooves the ends of the turret-s are to be fixed when the two stions of the saddle tree are joined together.

Figs. 11 and 12 in Drawing A represent the rings at the ends of the turrets through which the drivingreins pass.

Fig. 13 in Drawing A represents the base ofthe turrets around which the bridle rein will pass when the sections of the saddle tree are joined.

Fig. 14 in `Drawing A represents a ring in the middle of the' turrets at top, formed by uniting them together, through which ring will pass the detaching cord attached t-o the handle of the saddle tree shaft and intended to be pulled forcibly by the driver when desiring to detach the harness from the horse.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Uniting the two sections of a saddle tree by a tongue projection from one section and fastened in a corresponding groove in the other, by a metal shaft and spiral spring, the whole being entirely concealed from view, and arranged and operating substan tially as above set forth and described. Also, arranging a set of turrets intwo sections, each fitting into a dove-tailed groove in the top of the front of one section of the saddle tree, arranged and operating substantially as above set forth and described.

SAML. HUNT. Witnesses:

WAsHINGToN YELLOTT,

A. R. WOOD. 

